sub or about 4h30 hopefully

Well done paul, much faster than me and at least you had something to look at rather than a treadmill and an empty gym!!! I'm doing my first race on Sunday, the Townmoor Memorial 10K in newcastle, I'll be happy to do it around 55minutes maybe a little slower!!

Just pondering whether to join you lot over here, or the crowd on the sub 5 hour thread….

I have been running for a mere 5 months, only done one race before (GSR, 1:38), currently doing around 15 miles a week, sometimes more. Other races booked so far are the Nike 10k this month, and the Bath Half Marathon in March. A couple of little 'uns being pondered.

I'm by no means quick (see GSR time!), and seem to have a comfortable jog pace of around 10.5 to 11 min miles. GSR time was all sub 10 minute miles and to this day I don't know how I managed that. Will be 31 in December (eek), and some may describe me as "stocky"… heh. By no means am I built to be a runner.

Hi all, very excited tired girl here. Just ran 20mins on the treadmill with no ill effects at all, surely over the worst now. Hoping to get outside by next week, orthotics seem really comfortable but I guess the tester will be the longer runs.PJ, not really speaking for everyone but most of us are on this thread because we're hopeful of sub 4:30, not confident!! Well done on the half Paul, hope you're recovering well.

PJ, I'm a beginner too (started running over summer) and am hoping for a sub 4:30 time, although will be happy to just get round in one piece to be honest! My steady run pace is about the same as well. So I reckon you should stick with this thread.

What is GSR? At first I thought it was meant to be GNR but am confused now!

Too busy running to post;)Not really, just building up slowly and so far knee is holding out.I've got a 10k booked at the end of the month, does anyone have any advice as to whether I should do it or not, bearing in mind I'm only just back from a knee injury and I'm getting used to my orthotics.I would like to but am bit scared of making things worse again!All advice welcome!

Tiredgirl, I don't know much but I would say you should do the 10K if you want to, as long as you don't go full out and race it. If you use it as a training run then you'll probably be fine.Dips, sorry to hear you have knee problems again. I have a feeling the same will happen to me as soon as I start training again-it's very frustrating!

Hi Peeps good to hear from you guys.Tiredgirl, the end of the month is not far away and as your coming back from injury plus getting used to the orthotics please be careful. Missing a 10K is not the end of the world, is it the Nike 10K?, as there are plenty more you can do. See how you go and if you feel you are able to then do it but as Bananna said don't go flat out. Alternatively you could run say half of it just to sample the atmosphere.

Dips,I have suffered and still do sometimes suffer from ITB, the only answer is continious stretching. The one that works for me is when I lie on my back, cross the R leg over on to the L knee and then sloooooowly pull my L knee towards my chest. It does hurt a bit but it gives the ITB a good stretch. Try it.

Today is very cold around Essex but at least Liverpool won,yessssssss.

Thanks Stylish and Bananna for the advice. The 10K is the Leeds Abbey Dash which I think has 'fun' runners in it as well, so I'm hoping to be able to take it a bit slower. Just back on the roads this week though (only about 3 mile at mo!) so will see how that goes and make a decision next week. Like you say, plenty more to go at if I don't manage this one.

Dips, hope your IT Band is feeling better. Like Stylish says, stretch, stretch, stretch. My 7 year old is so used to me doing the exercise that Stylish has mentioned that she now thinks it's a great game to lie on the floor and mimic me!! Just hoping really that it all pays off - only 5 months tomorrow!!

That clock on the FLM website is merciless. Do they put the time to race-day in days, rather than months, on purpose?! So little time left, so many miles to get in!. As far as schedules go, are any of you going to follow the 'ultimate' sub 4.30 schedule from this web-site?

Hi guys how is everyone? Yesterday the charity that I've got a bond place with sent me my application form and on it was my race number. It sent a litle tingle down my spine and brought home to me how quickly the time is flying by. I chickened out of my run last night because of the rain, turned out to be good decision as it was raining cats and dogs. Hopefully will get out tonight.

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